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Deep Cuts
Documentary Film
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2024

“I told everybody the counseling is free.
But the haircut is 18 bucks.”

Tim Head is a barber at Floyd’s Downtown Barber Shop following a family lineage. This is what Tim reflects on fatherhood in his family and the community he builds up.

Tim “Floyd” Head established the Floyd’s Barber Shop following his father’s footsteps. Throughout his 36 years as a barber, he has maintained lifelong connections with his clients. Tim offers “last cuts” at the funeral home for free. Beyond his career as a barber, Tim takes on the role of father and community counselor. This is his reflection on fatherhood, family, and the community he continues to build up–one haircut at a time.

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Un becoming
Documentary Film
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2025

“A corset is never just a corset.
Hair is never just hair.”

Unbecoming Beauty is a first-person documentary exploring the 6B4T movement—a radical feminist wave that rejects beauty labor and reclaims the body from objectification. Originating in South Korea and spreading globally, 6B4T challenges women to abandon makeup, fashion, and other practices demanded by the gaze of men.

Through my own journey, the film captures the dilemma of navigating between family expectations and a broader cultural rebellion. While my family sees beauty as dignity or empowerment, I confront how those ideals can also serve as forms of control.

By blending personal conflict with the movement’s public acts of resistance, Unbecoming Beauty reveals both the intimate cost and the liberating promise of refusing beauty.

003The Shape of a DiamondDocumentary Film
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2025

“Sometimes you think
there’s a whole difficult situation that can’t be overcome…
But it really is possible.”

The film follows Marisol as she navigates economic precarity, migration, and personal trauma in Argentina. Against a backdrop of inflation and unstable labor, OnlyFans becomes both livelihood and agency, a space where survival, dignity, and self-expression converge.

Through intimate first-person storytelling, the film explores resilience, the struggle for independence, and the courage to reclaim one’s life when the world seems to take everything. This is a story of scars and diamonds, pain transformed into strength.

004Lockdown
Narrative Film
Co-Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2024

“Now that you’re all safe and sound,
fuck all those guys still outside looking for a place to go, right?”

A Sci-Fi thriller that reimagines the harrowing 2023 lockdown at UNC Chapel Hill after a school shooting. This dramatized and fictionalized tale plunges you into the intense scenario of five students confined to a small room during what began as an ordinary school day. What unfolds next tests the very essence of humanity in the face of extreme adversity.

This gripping narrative was a standout at the 2024 Carolina Film Association's Film Festival.

005In Frame
Narrative Film
Co-Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2023
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Jing Chen